S3 Innovate has been recognized by APAC CIOOutlook Magazine as the recipient of “Top Microsoft Solution Companies,” based on our proprietary methodology, reflecting its position in the industry. This profile has been developed by the APAC CIOOutlook research and editorial team based on insights from an interview with Nicholas Soon.

S3 Innovate
Smart Solutions Aiding Sustainable Movement

Nicholas Soon, Director, Business Development

As a pioneer in delivering high-tech IoT and cloud solutions, S3 Innovate works towards building a reliable and feasible environment for its clients. Headquartered in Singapore, the firm yields real-time integration platform for enterprises looking to move into the connected world. “We continuously work to bring high-shield customer experience through our suite of smart solutions and incorporate end-to-end connectivity throughout the nation,” says Nicholas Soon, Director of Business Development, S3 Innovate.

S3 Innovate endows comprehensive suite of solutions in the Built Sector, Facilities Management, Energy Management, and Engineering services sectors with cloud, IoT, Big Data, and Mobility technologies. By partnering with Microsoft BizSpark, the company has helped its customers embrace the cloud platform and reap benefits of Azure solution. “We consider Microsoft a key partner to build smart solution on premises, on the cloud or on a hybrid deployment; for government units, research institutes, and enterprises,” adds Soon. Being a tech savvy company, S3 Innovate brings high-shield solution for Building performance, service management, and workspace management. The company focuses on the need of a connected architecture to accommodate the burgeoning data through Azure cloud solutions and integrated IoT platform.

S3 Innovate aims to disrupt the Facilities Management industry by combining Building Performance, Services Management, and Workspace Management in an integrated smart platform. Additionally, with Mobile Asset IoT Inspection System, S3 Innovate attenuates the manual job of inspecting the workflow, and assembles end-to-end connectivity throughout the network. Founded in 2015, S3 Innovate proffers a hardware technique that can connect the on-premises infrastructure with Azure IoT solution.

We consider Microsoft a key partner to build smart solution on premises, on the cloud or on a hybrid deployment; for government units, research institutes, and enterprises

With this integration, S3 Innovate’s clients can leverage advanced analytics, visualization, and machine learning along with taking predictive and preventive measures to outsource the existing risk of network.

One such case being, Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has been championing the green building movement in the country and has introduced its BCA Green Mark rating scheme—a building rating system designed for the tropics and sub-tropics with a strong focus on the actual energy efficiency of building systems. “We partnered with Microsoft, Cushman & Wakefield, and S&I Systems to build the ‘Chiller Efficiency Smart Portal’, powered by Microsoft Azure’s suite of IoT services,” expounds Soon. “We are glad that S3 Innovate was able to overcome the challenges and meet our expectations in the development of the portal. S3 was able to quickly apply its IT expertise to integrate IOT, energy management and data collection from the buildings’ subsystems together at the same time apply data analytic to make sense of the data stored in the cloud,” affirms Ang Kian Seng, BCA’s Group Director of the Environmental Sustainability Group. The portal enabled BCA and Building owners to access and make comparisons of chiller plant performance trends across multiple buildings, stakeholders to make quick and insight-based decisions on scheduling preventive maintenance, and negotiate performance-based contracts with their chiller providers. Moreover, being a great technology partner for Cushman & Wakefield by making use of their field energy audit experience and perceiving the project needs, S3 Innovate ensured a smooth development of this pilot project by BCA. “S3 Innovate has been a great technology partner that complements our strengths in the energy solutions domain. They understand our project inputs quickly, which significantly contributed to the smooth development of BCA’s pilot project,” says Lee Zhen Yi, Deputy Director Energy and Sustainability.

In the coming years, S3 Innovate envisions bringing more flexible cutting-edge models to improve the connectivity for its global customers. “We are continuously working to bring best-in-class service portals for our clients and climbing the ladder, we also intend to map our services in Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam,” concludes Soon.